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The Museum Device. Notes from the making of an exhibition
The Museum Device. Notes from the making of an exhibition

Author(s): Gabriela Nicolescu
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: archive; museum; deposit; exhibition design; visitors’ study

Summary/Abstract: This is an article about the making of an exhibition as a device . “Connections: Objects in relation and context” was intended to be more as a tool of research rather than a well established museum exhibition. By selecting hundred and seven objects from all the collections, archives and stores of the museum, irrespectively of their origin and status, this exhibition functioned as a fragment that reflects the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant as a whole, with its complicated institutional pasts, present tensions and curatorial crises.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 187-197
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English